Eremoterra

The chronicle of Maldive Dreams

Open sea, 3960 m deep, kept by magnus_ek

Every line is a record the land wrote; the names in quotes are the owner's words. What the chronicle does not say did not happen. Most lines fade after half a year; the kept ones stay.

Animals here this month: whale (migrating), shark (feeding), sea turtle (feeding), dolphin (feeding), tuna (passing), reef fish (feeding).

The people

THE PEOPLE OF MALDIVE DREAMS — fishers and sea hunters, settled, in hearth households.
Names from their own tongue. They hold the sea sacred.
They keep: boats sung in; burial in the water; the first-catch feast; shared catch; songs at the water.
They like timber, rope, cod, and the water. They dislike storm, fog, and stone. Open to strangers.
Their words: hearth naikilaaru, river or sea vuara, winter or the rains imeu, the dead pauparueti, home tetiti, stranger owe, feast pehoarautei, child vookimimeu, old one povama, the place Oteawaurua, the beast elevurau, the sky kahipo.
Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.

4 of the folk have names, in a household of 0.

The chronicle

The chronicle around the year

Year 1

The annals: 1 founders; 2 passage; 1 people founded; 2 tracks; 1 ways changed.

What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp

⊕ Maldive Dreams · open sea, 3960 m deep — the chronicle, kept by magnus_ek
Animals here this month: whale (migrating), shark (feeding), sea turtle (feeding), dolphin (feeding), tuna (passing), reef fish (feeding). This season: a whale passage.

A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0.
THE PEOPLE OF MALDIVE DREAMS — fishers and sea hunters, settled, in hearth households.
Names from their own tongue. They hold the sea sacred.
They keep: boats sung in; burial in the water; the first-catch feast; shared catch; songs at the water.
They like timber, rope, cod, and the water. They dislike storm, fog, and stone. Open to strangers.
Their words: hearth naikilaaru, river or sea vuara, winter or the rains imeu, the dead pauparueti, home tetiti, stranger owe, feast pehoarautei, child vookimimeu, old one povama, the place Oteawaurua, the beast elevurau, the sky kahipo.
Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.

The chronicle, newest first (7 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year):
- The dry season, the first year of Maldive Dreams: fresh shark tracks at the high dune.
- The dry season, the first year of Maldive Dreams: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept]
- The dry season, the first year of Tide Shoal Watch: whale passed through Tide Shoal Watch, migrating.
- The dry season, the first year of Tide Shoal Watch: shark tracks across the high dune.
- The dry season, the first year of Tide Shoal Watch: whale passed through Tide Shoal Watch, migrating.
- The dry season, the first year of Tide Shoal Watch: four came to Tide Shoal Watch and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Reokekueno", the boatwright "Keera", the fire-keeper "Veiwo", the lamp-lighter "Rowea". [kept]
- The dry season, the first year of Tide Shoal Watch: Magnus Ek called a people to Tide Shoal Watch: the people of Tide Shoal Watch. [kept]

Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 2 passage, 1 people founded, 2 tracks, 1 ways changed

The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N0556-E07047.txt